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Yeah? I think there's a man whose last name is Holmes and first name rhymes with ... uh, merlock who would disagree with this guy.

'Course I haven't read the article so I might be off base.

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Holmes was never bored. Every smudge told volumes. Innumerable books were there for the reading. And when "bored" nonetheless he dove inside his own mind and explored its behavior under various pharmacological abuses. (Surely you don't expect his hypothetical "trips" were akin to a common doper's?)

BTW: the article is just 487 words long. You spent more time informing us that you didn't read it than you would have spent doing so. ...and I'm so easily not bored I found it interesting to find the word count.

Homes was constantly doing lots of stimulants as well as other drugs

Saying he was never bored is a bit of a stretch for non drug abusers

I don't use any illegal drugs, but that sort of experimation looks to me like exactly that: experimentation. And, in the context of the article, he looked at the universe in all its interesting attributes and chose "I wanna try this!" something related to, and inside the universe. As defined by the article, that's not boredom.

I am not saying "Because he had drugs as an option, he wasn't bored". I'm saying "He was constantly amped up on something, so he wasn't bored".

S02E02 can prove that.

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